Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We must listen to poets.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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